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kon-vent´: Found in the King James Version margin of : “Who will convent me in judgment?†and in : “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 Convent is obsolete, but it was formerly used, and meant to summon, or to call before a judge.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.