InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Acts C1 C2 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28
Acts 3 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V25 V26
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Samuel
OET-LV And also all the prophets from Samouaʸl/(Shəmūʼēl) and the ones consecutively, as_many_as spoke, also proclaimed the these days.
OET (OET-RV) Similarly, the prophets from Shmuel (Samuel) onwards spoke in turn, and when they spoke they foretold these current days.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / hyperbole
πάντες & οἱ προφῆται
all & the prophets
Here the phrase all the prophets is probably not the same kind of generalization that it seems to be in 3:18. It is true in a more literal sense that all the prophets announced these days. There was something in the messages of each one of them that pointed to the culmination of God’s work in the coming of Jesus. So even if your language does not use generalizations for emphasis, you could translate these words just as Peter says them.
ἀπὸ Σαμουὴλ καὶ τῶν καθεξῆς
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: καί πάντες Δέ οἱ προφῆται ἀπό Σαμουήλ καί τῶν καθεξῆς ὅσοι ἐλάλησαν καί κατήγγειλαν τάς ἡμέρας ταύτας)
Alternate translation: [beginning with Samuel and continuing with those who lived after he did]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
τὰς ἡμέρας ταύτας
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: καί πάντες Δέ οἱ προφῆται ἀπό Σαμουήλ καί τῶν καθεξῆς ὅσοι ἐλάλησαν καί κατήγγειλαν τάς ἡμέρας ταύτας)
Peter is using the word days to mean a specific time. Alternate translation: [this time] or [these times]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
τὰς ἡμέρας ταύτας
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: καί πάντες Δέ οἱ προφῆται ἀπό Σαμουήλ καί τῶν καθεξῆς ὅσοι ἐλάλησαν καί κατήγγειλαν τάς ἡμέρας ταύτας)
Peter is referring to a specific time to mean implicitly what is happening at that time. Alternate translation: [the things that are happening now]
OET-LV And also all the prophets from Samouaʸl/(Shəmūʼēl) and the ones consecutively, as_many_as spoke, also proclaimed the these days.
OET (OET-RV) Similarly, the prophets from Shmuel (Samuel) onwards spoke in turn, and when they spoke they foretold these current days.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the CNTR.