The egg or the chicken? / which came first, the chicken or the egg
By analogy: which came first in the sequence of events. The cause or the effect in the chain of events.
(Modern Hebrew)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
הַבֵּיצָה אוֹ הַתַּרְנְגֹלֶת?
Definition (Hebrew)
בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: מָה קָדַם לְמָה בְּרֶצֶף הָאֵרוּעִים. הַסִּבָּה אוֹ הַמְּסֻבָּב בְּשַׁרְשֶׁרֶת הָאֵרוּעִים.
(הָעִבְרִית הַחֲדָשָׁה)