Compare the account at 1 Samuel 1: 3, 7. There, “as often as ” (in the modern translation of the Hebrew) refers to events that happened“ from year to year, ” or once a year, when Elkanah and his two wives went to the tabernacle at Shiloh.
नंतरच्या काळातच खरे तर ख्रिस्ती धर्मजगतात हा स्मारकविधी वर्षातून अनेक वेळा साजरा करण्याची प्रथा सुरू झाली.