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I've only heard it - with its apparent use in this case - in phrases about
knowledge specific to someone or something, as in:

> かみのみぞしるあめのみぞしる。

I would normally - with my low-level understanding of Japanese - use を and say
for example:

> それはかみのみをしること。

I've not found any info on Google. What is the function of ぞ and where else
can it be used?
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What is the funciton of the particle ぞ, and does it have any other uses?
Nobody _uses_ it now, because it is a piece of grammar from classical
Japanese. The final particle ぞ is a descendant of it, and otherwise only
remains in sporadic idioms: ～のみぞ知る, どうぞ, これぞ, よくぞ, 何するものぞ etc.

By the way, its meaning is not related to を. In old Japanese they don't have
consistent nominative or accusative markers, so it could be a subject or an
object.

> かみのみぞしる  
>  _It is only god(s) that knows._
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