In Gbaya, the notion of destroying someone is emphasized in Psalm 101:5 with kpɔl-kpɔl, an ideophone that expresses the sound of something bursting.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)
The interconfessional Chichewa translation (publ. 1999) uses the ideophone tolotolo in Song of Songs 3:6 to describe billowing curls of smoke. Tolotolo is generally used for a swirling and spiraling upward motion and evokes curling incense smoke and visual and olfactory richness. (Source: Ernst Wendland)
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)
In Gbaya, the notion of a short, rapid, brief action in Psalm 30:5 is emphasized with the ideophone ngólóm.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)
In Gbaya, the notion of the long fringes in Matthew 23:5 is emphasized with wɛzɛ-wɛzɛ, an ideophone that denotes something long, such as long, skinny fingers, or long dresses or earrings.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)
See also fringe / tzitzvit and suspended.
In Gbaya, the notion of a crowd’s cries of complaint (“they raise a cry”) is emphasized in Isaiah 15:5 with the ideophone beel-beel.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)
In Gbaya, the notion of rolling about (while shaking) is emphasized in Mark 9:20 with ɗik-ɗik, an ideophone that describes the movement or motion of shaking.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)
In Gbaya, the notion of turning rivers into a desert, i.e. a hardened riverbed is emphasized in Psalm 107:33 with kotoroo, an ideophone that refers to dry, hard earth.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)
In Gbaya, the notion of the heart melting within the breast is emphasized in Psalm 22:14 with lɛtɛtɛ, an ideophone that expresses limpness, flabbiness, melting, or spiritual weakness.
Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)