I have managed to finally get Strong's numbers to popup running e-sword with wine on linux.
You need to install the following using winetricks:
msftedit
msls31
msxml3
vb6run
vcrun6
wsh57
I believe the trick was to install msftedit which installs Microsoft Richedit 4.1. It takes about 15 minutes to download running 300 kb/sec.
Yes, this worked. I googled winetricks. Then I went into my Software Manager, located winetricks and then installed it.
I ran it.... installed the DLL's you listed. I followed the prompts. AND.....
now my e-sword works, the pop ups work, the Strongs numbers works....
it works
thank you