the Berasit Hebrew Dictionary

דבר

'Deber' generally is interpreted to mean “speak” or “word” or “message”. The word occurs 1,455 times in the Hebrew texts.

see also deberim

see 1687 “nothing”

Hebrew contains many words for the concept of speaking. Some of these are very specific, but there seems to still be “too many” general words.

LexID 1697