you shall drink it and drain it out

In Gbaya, the notion of drinking from and then immediately draining the cup out in Ezekiel 23:34 is emphasized with wɛlɛk, an ideophone that refers to an action done in one go, in one stroke.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)

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