Bible Dictionary
CONVENT
To convent, in obsolete English, means to summon someone before a court or call that person to answer a charge. The term appears in older marginal readings of Jeremiah.
Definition
To convent, in obsolete English, is to summon someone before a court or call that person to plead or answer a charge. The word does not refer here to a religious community or house.
Biblical Usage
The term appears in marginal readings concerning the challenge of being summoned to judgment or called to plead. It represents a legal summons before a judge.
Historical Background
The word was formerly used in English for summoning someone before a judge; it is now obsolete. The underlying Hebrew means to summon to court or call to plead.
Related Figures
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>kon-vent': Found in the King James Version margin of Jer 49:19: "Who will convent me in judgment?" and in Jer 50:44: "Who will convent me to plead?" The Hebrew term which is rendered convent is ya`adh, and it means to summon to a court, to call on to plead. Convent is obsolete, but it was formerly used, and meant to summon, or to call before a judge. Shakespeare used it several times. In King Henry VIII, Act V, he said, "The lords of the council hath commanded that the archbishop be convented to the council board."</p>