In Gbaya, the notion of total closure, a blocked path (as in a wall that is being built) in Hosea 2:8 is emphasized with ndíyɛ-ndíyɛ, an ideophone used to describe the pounding feeling inside one’s chest.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)