Heb. yamim, literally, “days.” In Lev. 25:29yamim, “a full year [literally, “days”],” is clearly equivalent to “a whole year [shanah, the usual word for “year”].”In 1 Sam. 1:3 Elkanah is said to have gone to Shiloh “yearly,” literally, “from days to days.” In ch. 2:19 the same idiom is translated “from year to year.”